With Spider-Man firmly in the studio’s grasp, devoid of his ties to Marvel Studios, it appears that Sony is fully committed to fleshing out its ever-growing Spider-verse. This time, according to a new report, the studio is planning on a new film featuring the obscure Marvel character, Madame Web.
According to Collider, Sony has hired the two men behind the script for the upcoming “Spider-Man” spin-off film, “Morbius,” Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless, to write a “Madame Web” film. Now, even if you consider yourself a pretty well-versed ‘Spider-Man’ fan, you might be scratching your head at the mention of Madame Web, and for good reason.
You see, in the comics, Madame Web is a clairvoyant/psychic character that is relegated to a web-like life-support system due to her neuromuscular disease and elderly age. Blind and unable to move, she helps Spider-Man and his allies by using her psychic abilities to locate people and predict the future. She’s also the grandmother of one of the various women to take on the name Spider-Woman.
However, in other versions of the character, such as the animated series from the ‘90s, Madame Web is more of a cosmic character that finds herself at the center of the ‘Spider-Man’ multiverse, with the ability to locate and bring together various versions of Spider-characters. If Sony were to go down this road, we could be looking at the “Madame Web” film serving as some sort of precursor to a major crossover film.
As mentioned, the writers of the film are probably best known for their work on the upcoming ‘Morbius,” which is the second film to exist in the newly-created Spider-verse that includes last year’s hit, “Venom.” “Morbius” stars Jared Leto as a former doctor that is now a “living vampire” and antihero that protects people with his powers.
“Madame Web” joins a variety of other projects that Sony has been developing to help fill out its Spider-Man family of films including “Silk,” “Silver Sable,” “Black Cat,” and “Kraven the Hunter.” Whether or not any or all of these films eventually gets made is anyone’s guess.
But with Sony having full control of Tom Holland’s Spider-Man, the studio needs to get this universe up and going as quickly as possible.